Some people think the stars must look closer from up here. They don’t. When you’re up here, you realize how distant they really are—how impossible to reach.

What did you think about?” I wish I could tell him that I thought about him, but I lied to him once and I won’t do it again. And besides, I wasn’t thinking about Xander...

Ky still looks at me and I wonder for a moment if he is going to ask me what I am thinking about. But of course, he doesn’t. He doesn’t learn things by asking questions…...

I love.The most reckless thing of all.

at first when the rain fell from the sky so wide and deepit smelled like sage, my favorite smellI went up on the plateau to watch it cometo see the gifts it always broughtbut this...

But if you were matched,” I say softly, “What do you think she’d be like?””You,” he says, almost before I’ve finished. “You,

Reaching and reached. Cassia